I've Been Busy Making My Own Cloth Diapers

[OliWesMom]

I wasn't sure if I wanted to cloth diaper the new baby.  Since Oli was 10 months old, I started using Kushies and some Bumkins AIO diapers to cut on cost of buying so many diapers and to do my part for the environment.  Well, I thought those diapers were the bomb and then I bought some higher end diapers (Happy Heinies, BumGenius 3.0 and Natures Love).  Now I hate my Kushies!  I've been a bit put off by all of the information on line on how to wash your diapers and make them and blah blah blah.  I was starting to think that it wasn't worth cloth diapering the new baby if it's that much work.  Well, I'm glad I kept doing research and chilled out a bit about the science of washing them.  I started a new hobby of making my own!  It's been fun and relaxing...unless the sewing machine bunches the thread for whatever reason.  (I'm not a seamstress.) 

I started wanting to make them when I bought a BumGenius fitted diaper for the newborn.  It was made with soft bamboo terry and I can't believe it was $12.75 and I still needed a liner!  Sheesh!  I looked at it and thought it would be easy to duplicate.  I bought a yard of bamboo terry cloth online and have made 6 more fitteds already with it.  That yard cost me $12!  Talk about a savings!  I still have more cuts on that yard too!  I've stretched it a bit by putting flannel as the outer and the bamboo inner to touch the baby's skin and I've even moved on to AIO and pockets.  I've made 4 pockets for Oli to make sure that they worked before I continued making the newborn diapers.  With some mistakes made and modificatiions, I finally have some working AIO and pocket diapers!  It's really exciting to me that I accomplished something like this!  I now have 4 pockets for Oli's size, 6 fitted newborn diapers and 5 pocket/AIO diapers for the newborn. I'm set; however I want to make 2-3 more fitteds for the newborn and I was thinking about making a fleece cover also.

Some of my friends have asked me to make some diapers.  It's a good thing...becauseI don't think that I really need too many more for my own use and I'm having so much fun making them!  I'm excited to make some girly prints too!

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[boogiebearlove]

May. 9, 2009 at 3:28 PM

How are you going to wash them? I need to figure out what works for us - the ammonia is killing me, and I'm not sure how to get rid of it or what caused it! All of the weird "stripping" procedures seem weird to me.

[soccermommyash]

Dec. 5, 2009 at 9:24 PM

You should sell them on etsy! www.etsy.com